In this beautiful and characteristic house, located just outside the village of Barolo, along the road that leads to Monforte, the tradition and the modern history of Barolo are at home. This, thanks to both the work of the current owner, Giuseppe Rinaldi, for everyone, more simply, Citrico (Critic), a veterinary devoted to viticulture and oenology, an extraordinary storyteller and considered by everyone one of the most original, smart and especially free minds of the Langa of Barolo, and, above all, thanks to the figure and the work of the person that preceded Beppe in the management of the company: his father, Battista Rinaldi.
It was him, whose moral rectitude and the severity have become legendary, to make this company one of the brands of reference of the classic Barolo, taking over the company in 1947, at age 29, following the death of his father arrived in Barolo from Diano d’Alba and buyer, along with Barale, of the I Palas farm by a farmer of the Falletti family.
He graduated with honors at the School of Enology in Alba, Battista Rinaldi, who was also appreciated the Mayor of Barolo from 1970 to 1975 who, during his administration period, made the Castle of Barolo become municipal property, and firstly the seat of the municipal winehouse, then of “Enoteca Regionale del Barolo”, of which he became the first president. He had the good fortune, and the burden, because dealing with large vineyards is never easy and requires a true spirit of service to the Land, to inherit a few hectares in terroir of particular value like Brunate, Le Coste, Ravera and Cannubi San Lorenzo. The grapes are vinified in different ways: Brunate in single variety, to be used in a special reserve kept for ten years in the cellar in bottles before being poured into bottles by seven tenths, the other three to compose, according to the most authentic historical traditions of Barolo, a calibrated blending.
Joined the company to support, with a well–known critical attitude about many things, his father, Beppe Rinaldi leads the winery today (waiting that his eldest daughter Marta, born in 1985, takes over the company, once finished the wine school Alba and discusses, herself too, with Beppe), with the same traditional and classic footprint, free from any modernism, changing things only the two preparations of Barolo. Since 1993, no more a Barolo based on vitages and a Brunate reserve, but two pairs of blendings of different grapes always by the 4 hectares of vineyards of historic properties: on the one hand, Brunate and Le Coste (10,000 bottles) and on the other hand, in the second but not less important wine, Cannubi San Lorenzo and Ravera (from vineyards in Novello), produced in 3,500 bottles.
Identical and classic vinification with long maceration on the skins, and fining, which of course was never touched by the temptation to be make it in small vats, but in large Slavonian oak casks dear to the history and the identity of Barolo. Wine is not meant to be consumed young, but has all the features, in terms of tannic structure, acidity and freshness, as well as aromatic elegance, to defy time.
The range of wines complemented by a Langhe Nebbiolo wine (100% Nebbiolo of course), from the Langhe Freisa, Dolcetto d&rsuqo;Alba, Barbera d’Alba, and a table wine called Rosae (produced with a grape variety, perhaps originating in Burgundy, land that Beppe Rinaldi knows and loves, called Rouch).
